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Old 04-07-2009, 02:20 AM   #25
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Library handling.

Current liseusen are built with the assumption that you will use a computer to manage your library and only carry a few books on the actual liseuse. They deal so badly with substantial collections that management on a computer is effectively a requirement, and having more than a trivial amount of storage is pointless.

Given a decent battery and some smart software it should be possible to browse by thumbnail if you wish, and have scores of books available on a single screen if you browse by text fields (title/author/date/keyword, whatever). On an 800x600 screen with 6 point text (that's smaller than I use for reading but fine for a book listing) I get a little over 50 lines of text on the page, and easily enough characters to hold Title plus Author and a few keywords. But the PRS 505 gives me ten items per page and about 30 characters of the title if I'm lucky.

So, library management. Anything else is gravy.
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